A staple neighborhood meat and grocery store that got nabbed with a fraudulent food-stamp sale announced it’s closing after nearly four decades in business.

Fresh Approach Market’s owners said they never bounced back after losing their food-stamp sales last year and being fined $5,700.

The government revoked and then reinstated their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) license after the owners acknowledged that one of their clerks sold non-food items – dish soap and tissues – to an undercover federal agent.

“Although we know this was wrong and it never should have happened, our license was suspended for six months and we received a hefty fine,” the owners said in a statement Wednesday. “It took us eleven months to get our license back.”

They said food-stamp customers were “a very big part of our business.”

“It is with deep regret and broken hearts we must announce that after 34 years in business on Bracket Street we will be closing Fresh Approach,” said owners Chet and Peggy Knights.

If the feds conducted a sting they likely had suspicions of more widespread non-food transactions involving taxpayer-financed coupons.

A single random sting resulting in a hit would be fractionally almost impossible, the shop’s owners contention it was a one-time oversight notwithstanding.